SADIE NEWS, 7 NOVEMBER 2009:Sadie at The Illustration Cupboard
This year’s Winter Show at The Illustration Cupboard, London, will include a number of original paintings from Sadie the Air Mail Pilot.

The show runs from 19 November 2009 to 31 January 2010 at The Illustration Cupboard, 22 Bury St, St James’s, London SW1, with late night openings until 7.30pm every Thursday until Christmas.

There are some rather fabulous artists included in the show, for example Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne, Angela Barrett, Babette Cole, Lauren Child, Nick Park, Hergé, and rare prints by Maurice Sendak. For more details, visit the gallery website.

Pictured here is storyteller Tuija Kauhaniemi who gave readings of the book for children at the museum. These were very popular and crowded, with up to 80 children per reading!

The show ran concurrently with a special children’s exhibition titled “Delivering emotions”, and lots of school groups came to visit. The museum estimated that about 10,000 children and adults saw the show.

Missing Painting
The painting shown below is missing, feared stolen. Have you seen it?

They were on show in 2007 at the Ian Logan Design Shop, Charterhouse Square, London EC1. The paintings went missing when the shop closed in January 2008.

This amounts to months of work lost. If you can help, please contact me, I’d greatly appreciate it.

A Day at the RacesSeptember ’08
Sam from Lodi, California, is a three year old with talented parents. His mother made this great model of Sadie and her plane for the 20th Aarrooone Cup Air Race.

The plane reached a speed of 34 mph, not the fastest on the day, but pretty darn good. She did however win the Concours d’Elegance for the best looking aircraft - chalk up another one to the Air Mail Service!

Plane Spotter’s Guide
The Science Museum in London has a great collection of aircraft on display, including some seen in the pages of Sadie the Air Mail Pilot. I’ve made a plane spotter’s guide to help find them all, and you can colour it in too.

Here’s a couple of online reviews, one from the Times Educational Supplement website, and another from the Write Away website.For those of you who can read Danish, there’s a six star (out of six) review from the daily Berlingske Tidene.

Now if only I could find the complete Dutch reviews online, (“een magistraal prentenboek,” Maarten Moll, het Parool, “een verpletterend prentenboek,” Monique Snoeijen, NRC Handelsblad,) then we could open a Sadie language school!

Wonderwalls
A choice of Sadie paintings are now available as wallpaper murals from Wonderwalls.

They’ve also got a range of other children’s book art, including some very nice Rupert Bear images. Their Sadie selection can be found here.

Foreign editions
Sadie is also being published in Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish!

- and thanks to the children and parents of Eleanor Palmer Primary School who queued for copies at two friday cake sales,

- and thanks to everyone at the Merlin School, Putney, London, especially all the children in years one and two who asked loads of questions and had some great ideas of their own for characters and stories,- and thanks to the staff at Owl Books, Kentish Town, London, for a very enjoyable Saturday morning reading.